Adjunct Misinformation

Haha I like that. I've never heard someone refer to themselves as pressurized, but I'm going to keep an ear out for it now.

 

Pressured - unless you have no method to vent the pressure. Pressured implies more or less an ongoing state, whereas pressurized is more of an end state. "More of" and "more or less"; these aren't absolutes.

To be fair, in engineering, I have heard the term jokingly applied to people hyperbolicly - usually with an obscene component, to boot. But then again, many engineering terms are co-opted for the sake of humor - as I'd assume every industry does.

 

I can only speak from an engineering perspective, but in a pressurized water reactor, the component that maintains pressure is called the pressurizer. "Pressurer" is both not a word, and would sound very awkward in English (with the double R). What does the pressurizer do? Well, it maintains pressure - or, pressures, as you would. However, it's a very natural step to say that a pressurizer, well, pressurizes - and once it's in the lexicon, it's there.

There may be other good reasons (clarity of communication by avoiding too many instances of the same term, in this case pressure, referring to multiple things), but simply dropping the "R" from "pressurizer" is a very normal method of turning a noun into a verb (or vice versa via adding the "R") in English when creating new words.

That's the connection to adjunct, as well. The way some (many) brewers are now using the term, while contrary to the previous industry standard, is a natural step - and once it's there, it's there.

(Man, I miss burgled. It sounds archaic now. Makes me want to fire up The Hobbit. )

 

I resemble that!

In all seriousness, I fully understand when I go off topic, and if I were moderated, I wouldn't protest. The fact of the matter - as has been explored elsewhere - is that moderation is based on user reports.

If no one reports the posts as being off-topic, then no action is likely to be taken. We aren't, to paraphrase another moderator recently, actively looking for posts to delete or threads to lock down. We are responding to user reports.

And in all transparency: if any single user reported my posts, I would refuse to weigh in, and let another moderator deal with it. That has never happened, to my knowledge (although I may have simply missed it), but I would never get involved in the moderation of my own posts. That's simply unethical, in my opinion.

I'm sometimes surprised (perhaps pleasantly) by what passes for "off-topic" versus "on-topic," but at the end of the day, we're all people, having conversations. If I veer off-topic, I do so knowing that it may get deleted as such. I try not to veer too far from beer-related content, as I respect the site (hence, why I make contributions), but I recognize I might not always be the right person to adjudicate my own content - and again, I'd never object if it were determined that my own posts were too far out of bounds.


TL;DR version: I am going to contribute to conversations on this site. I would argue most BAs know me more from discussion threads than from "like"-collecting threads like WBAYDN? At the same time, I don't pretend that I am immune from error, or being moderated, if I veer too far off course. I would fully expect it, honestly - and I don't think this thread is being maintained because of the involvement of a moderator in the discussion at large.

 

Truth. Although I'd suggest that both of those terms, and the discussion surrounding them, are both evidence that the term "adjunct" both has and will be used as it suits the industry, following the course of common use, with or without our explicit stamp of approval.

 

@Roguer responded pretty nicely although in length () but in short; no, even the moderation team cannot read everything (it’s a big place with hundreds new posts every single day), nor the BA owners so indeed, based on reports we decide what is deemed OT, inappropriate or downright insulting. It’s not our only mission either, dozen new beer and places need approvals every week, along with their pics. We are volunteers by the way and as we (me at least) spend quite some time here thought we might as well help out with the site. Cheers.